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Indians start strong, end strong
against Spartans
For the first time in a
long time, Donegal started
a football game in high
gear last week. The team
scored twenty points in the
first quarter of the home-
coming game with Garden
Spot last Friday, dealing
the Spartans a blow from
which they never quite
recovered.
When the game ended,
in a 42-0 victory for DHS,
the Indian coaching staff
looked happier than they
have looked for weeks.
The coaches had been
very nervous about their
team’s former record of
slow starts. The Indians
have always played good
second halves, but their
early sluggishness (until
this week) had sometimes
fooled opponents into
thinking that they had a
chance to win. Thus en-
couraged, they played hard
and well against the In-
dians. Demoralizing oppo-
nents in the opening
minutes of the game is a
sounder strategy.
Although they quickly
realized that they were
outclassed, the Spartans
stayed pretty well fired up
throughout the game. They
almost got onto the score-
board twice, but their
apparent touchdowns were
canceled by penalties. (In
the case of one canceled
TD, the runner would
never have gotten away
if a Spartan blocker had not
How good is L-S?
A few weeks ago, before
the Donegal-Manheim
Central game, sportwriter
Mac Rutherford typed the
following sentence into his
computerized typesetting
input machine: “The ques-
tion is, just how good is
Donegal?’’
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That question was defini-
tively answered by subse-
quent events, but, this
week, another question
looms; namely, ‘‘Just how
good is L-S?"
Question number two
will be answered next
Saturday, when the Indians
travel to the Lancaster
Catholic High field to meet
Lampeter-Strasburg.
[That's right, fans. L-S is
using Catholic’s turf. The
game will be held Saturday
night at the Catholic High
football field. Kickoff time
is 8 PM. |
At that time, the only
two undefeated teams in
Lancaster and Lebanon
Counties—Donegal and
L-S—will settle a rivalry
which runs deeper than
this year's section title
competition.
The rivalry runs back to
last year, when L-S, with
the aid of some bad official
October 11, 1978
Brian Ney, pursued in his backfield, tucks the ball under his arm and
Ney’s favorite target last Friday was Frank Brommer,
tackled a Donegal defen-
der, but the other apparent
TD was fairly gained).
Splain ran 111 yards in
11 carries. He has gained
552 yards for the year, and
his average number of
yards gained per carry is
6.6. Arlen Mummau
dashed 106 yards in only 7
carries. He is the bi-county
rushing champion in terms
of yards per carry, with a
7.3 yard average for the
year, and a grand total of
470 yards.
Jones picked up 30 yards
in 6 tries. He has 175 yards
for the year on 37 carries,
giving him a 4.7 yard
average.
Frank Brommer played
an outstanding game,
calls, robbed Donegal of
the section title. (If the
Indians had won that
game, they would have the
longest unbeaten winning
streak in the
Pennsylvania today).
L-S has not played with
the same awesome power
that the Indians have
displayed this year. They
have not piled up Indian-
style shut-outs. They have
won narrowly against even
weak teams—but they have
always won.
It may be simple luck,
but so far, the L-S Pioneers
have been very lucky.
Luck, of course, was on
their side last year, too.
Defense is the Pioneers’
strongest game, but a
couple of their running
backs—Doug Long and
Brian Fleming—are both in
the top ten of the whole
Lancaster-Lebanon League.
State of
hauling in three passes for
110 yards. Quarterback
Brian Ney completed 4 of 6
passes in the game, for a
total of 119 yards. Ney is
hitting SO per cent of his
receivers this year (22 of
44). His total passing
yardage for the year now
stands at 434 yards, and he
has been intercepted only
once.
Mummau and Splain
scored two touchdowns
each in the game.
Brommer scored one, and
the defense, led by big Jeff
Keener, blocked two punts
in the end zone for a safety
and a touchdown. (Keener
grabbed the ball on the TD
and got credit for the
score).
They also have a kicker
who is in a class with Pete
Splain. His name is Jack
Hess, and he plays tackle
when he isn’t booting field
goals.
The team’s statistics, on
both offense and defense,
are not nearly as impres-
sive as Donegal’s—but
with luck, L-S could be able
to put up a stiff fight.
L-S must expect their
luck to hold, judging by the
comments some Pioneers
made to our photographer
while the Indians were
busy demolishing Lebanon
Catholic a few weeks ago.
After ordering our photo-
grapher to take their
picture, a blond, barrel
shaped Pioneer waved at
the green team on the field
and said, ‘These guys are
pretty good. They might
even be the second-best
team in the county."
picks up a few yards anyway.
who picked up 110 yards with the three passes N
Homecoming scene
Chiques basketball
The Chiques Adult Ath-
letic Association will hold
its first meeting for men’s
basketball on October 16 at
the Marietta Community
House, 264 W. Market, at
7:00 PM.
All men living within ten
miles of Marietta Borough
who want to participate are
invited to be present.